Pursue Your Passion.

At its core, I base my teaching style on the premise and conviction that the “Universal Creative Intelligence” (whatever name it goes by) exists in all and everyone.
I do my best to emulate some of the world’s greatest teachers who have declared their purpose to be to “Make themselves redundant.” That is to enable, empower students to act confidently and independently of the teacher. Regardless of what level of achievement one aspires to, getting there will involve practice. Practicing is self-teaching. Therefore, the student must take on the role of the teacher when practising on their own. They must have a clear idea of what they wish to accomplish, observe attentively, diagnose the nature of challenges, and come up with creative and practical solutions.
The ability to self-teach rests upon a thorough understanding of the simple, easily understood, easily applied foundation principles which govern the various aspects of pianism, musicianship, and artistry. I am passionate about sharing these principles with students and empowering them to use them to maximum effect and in their own way as the unique individuals they are. This passion arises from sixty years of ongoing personal development as a pianist and musician as well as forty years of teaching experience. This experience has revealed that, of the many potential reasons for the extremely high incidence of people giving up on their piano adventure, often after years of lessons, effort and expenditure, one of the most significant is frustration due to lack of progress. Playing the piano has ceased to be a satisfying pursuit. Tragically, many such people regard this as a personal failure thinking they were not sufficiently intelligent, talented, motivated, disciplined, etc, when in fact, in so many cases, the lack of satisfying progress was due to the lack of foundation knowledge and skill of the sort that facilitates on going and unlimited development.
A moment’s reflection upon human achievement reveals, that once foundation concepts are firmly established, development becomes rapid and even exponential in nature. For example, for millennia, humankind had dreamt of flying like the birds. Finally, in the early 20th century, the Wright Brothers discovered the foundation principles of sustained flight. The first attempt lasted only seconds, the aircraft getting just a few feet off the ground yet a few short decades later, flights to the edge of space at multiple times the speed of sound were a matter of routine!